Miracle or fake?

The Swedish Ict Miracle: Myth or Reality? the Swedish Ict Miracle – Myth or Reality?

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for the period 1980–2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing industries for the period 1993–2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US productivity in the 1990s, overtak...

Is It Fake or Real?

In this paper, we describe a new methodology to separate photographs and computer generated images . We introduce the Progressive Randomization (PR) technique that captures the statistical properties of each one of these classes. Using only statistical descriptors of the least significant bit (LSB) occurrences, our method already performs as well or better than some comparable existing techniqu...

Ghana’s Development: Miracle or Mirage?

Joyce Meng Introduction: Ghana’s Economic History in Perspective Although Ghana enjoyed a privileged position in the post-colonial era due to a relatively stable regime with a charismatic leader committed to soliciting international financial support, profitable natural endowments, and a comparatively high stock of human capital, short-term growth belied the atrophy of long-term sustainable dev...

The Swedish ICT miracle - myth or reality?

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for the period 1980–2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing industries for the period 1993–2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US productivity in the 1990s, overtak...

Medical manpower mismanagement: mirage or miracle?